If more than 1% of the Republican party is like you, I don’t want to be a Republican anymore. You are happy to throw people like Palin under the bus while you are willing to give Mitt Romney a..(explicit act that you will know on the first guess)
I’m no fan of the sit-it-out-for-Romney school of thought, but SOYC makes a valuable point. Romney has had his fingers in a number of very bad things that have happened to the GOP. It has been argued on this forum that it was his people inside the McCain campaign who sabotaged Sarah in 2008, possibly costing us the election. It is further arguable through the emerging Romneycare-Obamacare connection that he is every bit the anti-constitutional statist that Obama is, if not quite fully Marxist.
Thus, his greatest weakness going into the general is that both parties will be confronted with a choice where the philosophical differences between the two candidates are so weak the race will dissolve into identity politics, in which case we will lose one of the most winnable presidential elections in GOP history, to an open Marxist.
Furthermore, I have interned at a constitutional law firm where I learned first hand how heavy handed he can be in implementing his statism.
So, in my mind, should he win, he might actually be worse for us than Obama. That is not intended as jump-the-shark rhetoric. That’s a real impression that has been growing in my mind, especially as I see how he is attempting to game the primary system at a deep level to guarantee his nomination, at a time when he knows the will of the people is beginning to run against him. In that I see the same spirit that governs Obama, the spirit of the would-be tyrant, the impulse to power, no matter who he has to run over to get there. If Romney actually does become the GOP nominee, the game is changed significantly for the worse, and I do not yet know what I will do.
I`m trying to discern the part in which you conclude I`m throwing Sarah under the bus. MY COMMENT WAS THAT i didn`t believe she had a chance to win, not that Ibwas casting her aside. One can be supportive of a person`s ideology and at the same time realistic about their electoral chances.